beguiles

Example Sentences

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It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge • Mar. 8, 2022

This movie — the story of how she returns home — beguiles and fascinates on several levels.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020

It’s a nifty framework, doubly so because Hinderaker manages to graft the Magician’s heartache and personal insecurity into the act that Schneider beguiles us with.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2017

What though you’ve learned of envy’s wiles, The slanderous tongue, which oft beguiles?

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah